Supreme Court Justices should be elected officials.

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This would help eliminate a "loaded" supreme Court scenario. Instead of one party nominating like minded justices (conservative president nominating conservative justices or liberal justice by liberal president) during it's majority, each nominee would have to run for election to the Supreme Court, at each seat, thus giving citizens choices from all spectra of judicial leanings.

Lifetime appointment warrants the democracy to elect this individual at popular vote.

This would encourage voters to research their judges and help eliminate the helpless of the minority not represented by the administration.

This is an excellent idea. It gives the masses the power to elect someone in a very powerful position than the President and congress.

There is already a precedent for electing judges, i.e. county circuit court judge.

Lobbyists and politicians are increasingly using Supreme Court appointments to push political agendas, as seen in the cases of Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh, and should therefore be treated the same as any other political agenda...vote on it.

The Supreme Court is essentially reflective of the popular vote anyway, since justices are usually appointed with corresponding judicial philosophy as the party who nominates them. If citizenship elects all conservative politicians, then by proxy they're voting for conservative supreme Court appointments as well.

Elected judges tend to act more like politicians than appointed judges. According to brennancenter.org, "The more frequently television ads air during an election, the less likely state supreme court justices are, on average, to rule in favor of criminal defendants." This means that judges want to show the public they are 'being a good judge' and being tough on crime. This attitude can mean harsher sentences and even some innocent people being convicted to bolster the judges conviction record.

This would create times of an even number of justices, and delay or stifle important legal decisions.

It is difficult for the populace to learn ruling history for a judge. This makes an educated vote problematic